Social Systems

Joyful. Graceful. Blessed. Strong. Anxious. Depressed. Stigmatized. Stereotyped. What happens when motherhood isn’t what you expected—and when you reach out for support, you are met with judgment and prejudice? Sandra Igwe shares her journey as a young Black mother, coping with sleepless nights, anxiety, and loneliness after the birth of her first daughter. Burdened by cultural expectations of the “good mother” and the “strong Black woman” trope, her mental health struggles became an uphill battle.

Avec la participation exceptionnelle de l'auteur pour la lecture de "La Note de l'auteur", "L'épilogue" et les "Remerciements". Trois ans d'investigations, 250 témoins, le courage d'une poignée de lanceurs d'alerte, des dizaines de documents explosifs, plusieurs personnalités impliquées... Voici une plongée inquiétante dans les secrets du groupe Orpéa, leader mondial des Ehpad et des cliniques.

Strategies for Developing and Implementing Information Technology Systems for Electronic Health Records was a research-based effort by Priscilla Riddley to introduce the latest practices occurring in the healthcare industry. It intends to provide useful information in the easily digestible format of a detailed book with comprehensive sections. Priscilla aims to cover the topic of Electronic Health Records mentioned throughout the book as EHR. Although seemingly a straightforward concept, EHR systems have considerably grown in the last few decades.

In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that, in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Alexandra Wilson was a teenager when her dear family friend Ayo was stabbed on his way home from football. Ayo's death changed Alexandra. She felt compelled to enter the legal profession in search of answers. As a junior criminal and family law barrister, Alexandra finds herself navigating a world and a set of rules designed by a privileged few. A world in which fellow barristers sigh with relief when a racist judge retires: 'I've got a black kid today and he would have had no hope'.

What would happen if the systems within our society focused on care and healing instead of growth and profit? In A Case for Compassion: What Happens When We Prioritize People and the Planet, Sara Schairer—a leader in the compassion field—examines five of our most influential systems: education, health care, corrections, law enforcement, and the workplace. Using personal narratives, research, thought-leader interviews, and examples of compassionate institutions, Schairer shows us that compassion can solve many of our society’s most pressing problems. You’ll read inspiring stories ...

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial markets.

There is more to the technique of how to get bullies to stop than just ignore them and they will go away. Lots more. What isn't being taught is causing us to fail. This audiobook is designed to help you understand what exactly has to happen to get a bully to stop by sharing what science tells us needs to happen to stop unwanted behavior, like bullying.

Black women are at higher risk of developing postnatal depression but are the least likely to be identified as depressed. Sharing the voices of other mothers, Sandra examines how culture, racism, stigma and a lack of trust in services prevent women getting the help they need. Breaking open the conversation on motherhood, race, and mental health, she demands that Black women are listened to, believed and understood.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule." How did this system take shape, how else might it have developed, and what are the prospects for re-envisioning it more democratically in the future? These questions animate Dmitrii Furman's Imitation Democracy, a welcome antidote to books that blandly decry Putin as an omnipotent dictator without considering his platforms, constituencies, and sources of power.

Ian Millhiser, Vox's Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what the six very conservative Republicans Supreme Court justices are likely to do with their power. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right - its agenda is to shape the very nature of America's government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws.

Die Soziologin und Comedienne Katharina Linnepe entlarvt die absurdesten Verhaltensstörungen, Glaubenssätze und Denkmuster unseres Gesellschaftssystems. Kritisch, lehrreich und urkomisch–dieses Buch legt die wahren Ursachen unserer mentalen Probleme offen und zeigt, wie wir einem in der Krise erstarkenden Patriarchat entgegenwirken können.

Your emotions unleash at any time. The relationships around you often result in devastation. Your life feels like a chaotic mess. Don't let the trauma of your past delegate your future. Your BPD symptoms or traits can set you up for more pain, agony, and failure if you don't control them now. Your BPD experiences, stress, trauma, and diet can set you up for the devastating disability called multiple sclerosis. Take back control of your life today. Your health and your sanity depend on it! We will show you how.

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality.

When life gives you lemons, burn the whole tree down! Samara Yancy has tried her best not to start another Great War. To defeat her enemy, she’ll need more defensive Combat Mages to fight by her side. But they’re scattered, some behind city/state dampening fields, others miles away on The Mainland. Meanwhile, her Psi ability continues to develop in strange ways. When it gives her cryptic clues about the source of all the unrest plaguing her world, she needs to learn more about her kind. Oddities who were both admired and feared. But the universe keeps messing up her plans. After another...

Fun fact: Blondes do not have more fun! The Mainland is Samara Yancy’s new home. Away from the authorities on The Rock, who view her as a felon. But life here is no picnic. It turns out, no amount of blood money or minions can bring you happiness. But, if she doesn’t return voluntarily, her family will suffer in her stead. So, it’s time to rally her allies and craft a strategy to get her people out; regardless of the consequences. But as usual, nothing goes according to plan. As each layer of deception unfolds, she discovers the depth of rot within her once beloved city/state ...

Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life.

Social loafing has a negative impact on organizations all over the world, and this book explores the phenomenon as a career choice for workplace slackers. It introduces the subject, discusses its background, exemplifies its occurrences in organizations, highlights the problems it creates, and shows how to minimize its negative influence. Readers gain an understanding of what social loafing is, what it does, and why some employees choose to follow it as a career path.

In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation. As she comes of age in an America whose freedoms are distorted by race and gender, she finds herself reflected in a cast of others—jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes and stars. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W.E.B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly.

Collaborative divorce is an option for divorce outside of court that minimizes conflict, improves family relations and co-parenting, give couples more say in the outcome of their settlement and prevents the costs and stress associated with a court trial. However, for collaborative divorce to be effective a thorough understanding of the process, the misconceptions, and risks involved are needed to ensure a kinder, more collaborative outcome.